Lib Dem stumbles into Owen Jones fanclub meeting

OWEN Jones was given a hero’s welcome last week as he joined Labour campaigners in Kilburn to make sure everybody knows, if they didn’t already, that the party is against grammar schools.

An ecstatic fanclub gathered around a big banner and placed him in the middle with Tulip Siddiq for the pictures. Not then perhaps the best time for former Liberal Democrat councillor Nick Russell to pop out to the shops. The expression on his face in this behind the camera snap, as he realises what he’s about to wheel his bike through, says it all…